{"id":7287,"date":"2025-03-02T14:44:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T14:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=7287"},"modified":"2025-03-02T14:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T14:44:51","slug":"%f0%9f%93%ba-walker-texas-ranger-and-dallas-legend-dead-at-88-more-in-comments-%e2%ac%87%ef%b8%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=7287","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcfa &#8216;Walker, Texas Ranger&#8217; and &#8216;Dallas&#8217; Legend Dead at 88 More in Comments \u2b07\ufe0f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/popculture.com\/celebrity\/news\/trailblazing-hollywood-legend-toni-vaz-has-died\/\">Another Hollywood legend<\/a>\u00a0has left us. According to\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/michael-preece-dead-dallas-walker-texas-ranger-director-1236149938\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<em>Dallas\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Walker, Texas Ranger\u00a0<\/em>script supervisor-turned-director Michael Preece died on Thursday at 88. His daughter, Gretchen Preece-Newman, told the outlet he died of heart failure at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Preece was born on Sept. 15, 1936 in Los Angeles, and his mother, Thelma, founded the Script Clerks Guild, which later became IATSE\u2019s Script Supervisor Local 871.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7288\" src=\"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/images-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/images-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/images.jpeg 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After graduating from Alexander High School, Preece took a job in set continuity on the Preston Foster-led syndicated series\u00a0<em>Waterfront\u00a0<\/em>during the summer of 1955 while a freshman at Santa Monica City College. He went on to work as a script supervisor on numerous films, including 1958\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Old Man and the Sea<\/em>, 1962\u2019s\u00a0<em>How the West Was Won<\/em>,\u00a0<em>True Grit\u00a0<\/em>in 1969,\u00a0<em>The Getaway<\/em>\u00a0in 1972, and more. He also worked as a script supervisor on all three seasons of NBC\u2019s action dramedy\u00a0<em>I Spy\u00a0<\/em>from 1965 to 1968.<\/p>\n<p>In 1975, Preece began directing, starting with an episode of ABC\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Streets of San Francisco.<\/em>\u00a0He also directed\u00a0<em>The Prize Fighter\u00a0<\/em>in 1979 and\u00a0<em>Beretta\u2019s Island\u00a0<\/em>in 1993. Preece is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/popculture.com\/celebrity\/news\/hogans-heroes-walker-texas-ranger-legend-dies-peacefully-la-albert-s-ruddy-94\/\">best known for his work on\u00a0<em>Walker, Texas Ranger<\/em><\/a>, directing a whopping 70 episodes from 1993 to 2001. He also directed 62 episodes of\u00a0<em>Dallas\u00a0<\/em>from 1981 to 1991. Other projects he directed include\u00a0<em>7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Heaven, The Lazarus Man, Baywatch, The Young Riders, MacGyver, Knots Landing<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Hunter,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>The Incredible Hulk<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2012 interview with\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/dallasdecoder.com\/2012\/12\/10\/the-dallas-decoder-interview-michael-preece\/\">Dallas Decoder<\/a><\/em>, Preece discussed what it was like directing\u00a0<em>Dallas<\/em>, noting there was a saying \u201con the set that\u00a0<em>Dallas\u00a0<\/em>was director-proof.\u201d He continued, \u201cLarry [Hagman] knew his character. He had a tendency to go a little bigger than was needed, so you\u2019d try to curb him a little bit. Or if he didn\u2019t know his lines well, sometimes he would have them written on cue cards, and I\u2019d say, \u2018Larry, you sound like you\u2019re reading it.\u2019 But basically, he needed very little direction \u2013 and that was true of much of the cast. They made it easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with his daughter, survivors include Preece\u2019s son, Gary; grandchildren Jason, Ariana, Molly, Patrick, Alice, and Adrian; great-grandchildren Jason, Emma, and Jon; and great-great-grandson Julian. Preece was married to his first wife, Paula, from 1953 to 1968 after meeting in high school. He later married Hollywood hairstylist Evelyn Preece from 1969 until she died in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Hollywood legend\u00a0has left us. According to\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter,\u00a0Dallas\u00a0and\u00a0Walker, Texas Ranger\u00a0script supervisor-turned-director Michael Preece died on Thursday at 88. 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